#fandom:xmfc

[imayoyo]

He lives in the hope of surprises. The good kind, of course, but sometimes anything will do.

Erik is the best surprise he's ever had (long before he's the worst). The most powerful telepath on the planet could never be a pacifist.

I will never not be fascinated by hyper-competent people with boundary issues and emotional problems so my love of Charles Xavier was a foregone conclusion before seeing XMFC and stickmarionette writes the best Charles I have ever read. She goes way beyond the reach of the film and establishes our friendly neighborhood telepath as someone you can deeply admire and yet want to run away from very fast. 

[imayoyo]

The one where they're perfectly normal men in the twenty-first century. Except for where they really aren't.

[imayoyo]

Years later, Charles would remember that day. Sometimes he would wonder if he could have changed anything; other times he would despair over what he had since become. But he would always hold the image in his mind: Raven, laughing, and his thoughts flying alongside her on strong wings, silver-gold through the winter air. Once upon a time.

I failed out of this story months ago, not because it's bad, it's the opposite of bad. It's deliciously good. The imagery is amazing, the characterization superb, the sexual tension near scorching and dark.

It's also the scariest fucking thing I've ever read.

You keep thinking the author isn't going to go somewhere awful and then you find she has and that it was ten times more terrifying than you expected and you can't escape and you now have enough nightmare fuel to last several lifetimes. 

Note: No rating was given, but I listed it as NC-17 because of the graphic and dark images. (There may also be smut, idk, haven't read it) ~G

[imayoyo]

Charles Xavier- rich, introverted, and academic- begins his senior year of high school in 1962. Erik Lehnsherr, despite his own efforts, is the first person to properly reach out to him. Both are astonished to find a human being on the other side.

[problematicturtle]

remix!

So hey, remix reveals are up! Allright so I wrote:

The future's in somebody's back yard (the fly like we do mix)

Which is remix of four of pearlo's fic. And it's - you know I wanted to go like "oh this is kind of my love story to fandom" but it's really not, it's kind of like my love story to pearlo (and okay the evil shaw ficcers gang), whom I adore adoringly and whose fic I also adore, and all the fun we have had in this fandom (the original draft was actually a fair bit more meta...but I ended up leaving most of that out), and thinking about the remix and spending a fair amount of time talking to A. about the remix and somewhere along the way we decided to do this, and she basically did all the formatting work for it because she is awesome (why is she so great though, really?), and so is pearlo, and basically, yes. And I chose the stories that were dearest to me (and some actually written for us, so they're ouurs) (The Brothers! Charlotte!) Anyway the original stories are so great:

Give me your stars to hold

Circles on the grass

With the red roses

Rest your head (on this heart of mine)

For remix madness I wrote

Stand Up (The We Shall Not Be Moved Remix)

which is a remix of Stand Down by the lovely turtletotem, and I had a lot of feelings about Raven in the aftermath of Charles' and Erik's death in that story, although I'm really happy they finally got their happy ending. Again, lovely lovely A. betad it and I love her. I don't really write Raven at all unless it's about her relationship with Charles as seen through Charles' eyes, and I do think she's a little cold in this story, but then again these are the choices both she and Erik made,

(I wish I had more things to say about how I remix, but honestly as with all my writing, it's ninety-percent panic, five-percent last minute inspiration and the remaining five-percent is spent yelling at A. and going "this is horrible isn't it you're just being nice ISN'T IT, the writer will hate me forever for ruining their beautiful story WON'T THEY" while she holds my hand and soothes me as one would a jittery horse.)

Once again, written for me was:

too many times before (the six feet over remix)

Which was a remix of So I keep it low, keep a secret code And honestly, NO-ONE ELSE COULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS STORY LADY_K I LOVE YOU THE MOST.

[problematicturtle]

Ugh, I know they ret-conned that awful Xorneto arc, but I have a lot of feelings about Charles deciding to go to Genosha to bury him.

HE HAS A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT MAGNETO OKAY.

(Something about bookends of the same soul, massive dick (both literally and figuratively), blah blah blah.)

[problematicturtle]

This is a fic post

Proposal(s) (1408 words) by cm Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) Rating: General Audiences Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier Summary:

"Never too late." "To let go."

Thought I'd try actually posting new fic somewhere...again. I'd stopped at some point. No doubt this will not last. But anyway, no-one dies in this one, so that's a switch. \o/

[problematicturtle]

headed out on the highway

Just went on a random ~following spree. Is that what they call it? Do not be afraid, I'm mostly harmless.

Kind of feel I'm losing touch with fandom a little. But it's better than how it's been the past three months.

Things on my WIP list:

- RBB (creys, what is this, it was going so well and then I started thinking about things like ~plot and stuff)

- the one where David 8 plots to take over the world or something

- that thing I'm doing on the meme that refuses to end ahaha fuck